Deep Freeze 9

I believe that mythical stories can help us grasp large, cohesive organizations that possess agency—aka ogregores. However, there’s a wrinkl...

One of the arguments made about agency during the Greenbriar Inn dinner sponsored by Dale Hatfield was that organizational agency is just sh...

It’s important to understand the nature of organizational agency in order to reckon with the scale and complexity of the institutions shapin...

When a tiger takes a small child, people usually don't consider it to be an evil being. It's doing what tigers do. Animals are not m...

I’ve invented a pantheon that represents collective social agents, i.e., ogregores—the “ogregods.” 

Ogregores—organizations that demonstrate collective agency—are all around us but are hard to grasp because they are not human, even though t...

Another ogregore story, this time about a failed romance. Not a trickster story, like MoeV Unmasked or Wezl's Ghosts .

Here’s the second installment of ogregore stories, this one about deception and regulatory capture. It’s another trickster story, just like ...

 Marissa Grunes has encouraged me to develop mythic stories about ogregores. Here’s my first attempt, about a trickster who used ghosts to f...

 Agentic AI is a trending term. If the hype comes true, perhaps all that will be left for humans is to buy things. But what if AIs start cli...

Time for another project snapshot. There were earlier snapshots in Jul 2020 , Oct 2020 , Feb 2021 , and Nov 2021 .

A recent Goldman Sachs reorg demonstrates an exception to my claim that “leaders love to take credit for corporate success, bolstering the ...

Susan Tonkin gave me an intriguing reason why it’s hard to “see” ogregores for what they are, in response to my post Bad Outcomes make it ea...

 I've observed that leaders love to take credit for corporate success, bolstering the impression that CEO's determine corporate acti...

I’ve come to to doubt the universal description of the Norse god Loki as a trickster. Perhaps “fixer” would fit him just as well, or better.